Dead bugs = Dead Lettuce??

jah rawstafari

Aloha Everyone!

So I go through lettuce like a rabbit with a serious case of the munchies:) Seriously. I buy 2-4 heads of organic romaine or leaf lettuce daily.

Anywho – from time to time (more often than not) I will find small insects within the leaves of the lettuce, especially as I get closer to the heart. Sometimes it’s one or two – sometimes it’s a deadbug carnival! I just rinse or brush them off and continue to contently munch away…always thinking “bugs exist in nature – of course they should be in my organic food!” But just today I was like, “wait…why would the bugs be dead in my organic produce?” I mean, unless it was sprayed or irradiated or something, right??

any thoughts?? similar experiences?

luv, bewildered bunny

Ceasarea

Hi JR, bugs/insects have a relatively short life span, sometimes a few days. So if they get caught in your lettuce and bagged up, shipped out, etc., they die on route to your kitchen table. I think that’s the simple answer, someone else may know better than I.

But do you have reason to believe that your organic market is not selling truly organic produce?

jah rawstafari

Thanks Ceasarea! Now that I think about it – that makes total sense (the short life span).

I buy my greens from ‘The Fresh Market’, which is not soley organic. Many times there is no sticker or plu# on the produce, just a sign saying “organic”...so who knows really :P

i believe I will happily munch on and stick with the notion that my little bug friends died a pesticide free death….

chicory

I believe Ceasarea is right :). I have picked lettuce from my mom’s garden, and found dead buggies in the middle~ and we never used any pesticides, etc.

troublesjustabubble

Yeah, same here chicory. In fact, the only live buggies I ever saw on my moms(or my) lettuce were little worms occasionally